4.48 PSYCHOSIS

Erasmus Mackenna / Frascati Producties

Tue 17 Feb ’26 - Wed 13 May ’26

Sarah Kane’s infamous cult classic in times of hyperviolence.

Tue 17 Feb ’26

Wed 13 May ’26

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Tue 17 Feb ’26

20:00

Try-out

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

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Wed 18 Feb ’26

20:00

Try-out

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Frascati 4

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Thu 19 Feb ’26

20:00

Première

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

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Fri 20 Feb ’26

20:00

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Frascati 4

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Sat 21 Feb ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

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Tue 24 Feb ’26

20:00

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Frascati 4

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Wed 25 Feb ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

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Thu 26 Feb ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

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Fri 27 Feb ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

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Sat 28 Feb ’26

20:00

Frascati, Amsterdam

Frascati 4

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Wed 8 Apr ’26

20:00

Tourlocatie, Utrecht

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Theater Kikker, Utrecht

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Sat 18 Apr ’26

20:15

Tourlocatie, Leiden

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Ins Blau, Leiden

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Wed 22 Apr ’26

20:15

Tourlocatie, Den Haag

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Het Nationale Theater, Den Haag

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Sat 2 May ’26

20:00

Tourlocatie, Almere

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Corrosia, Almere

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Wed 13 May ’26

20:00

Tourlocatie, Haarlem

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De Schuur, Haarlem

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How can you build a life as a human being when the other members of the human race seem seem obsessed with orchestrating their own downfall? Is it possible to live in this world without lying about who you are? Where can love be found when you are turning to ashes?

In 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, we meet someone who is trying to find coherence in a crumbling existence. Surrounded by a violent landscape of love and loss, they obsessively search for tenderness and clarity. Tortured by dysphoria, haunted by ghosts and paralysed by shame and anger, they mourn the past, the present and, above all, the lost future.

Sarah Kane wrote the text at the end of the twentieth century, when she had lost faith in love and Western values were beginning to collapse. It is a web of intimate fragments in which a person's life simultaneously unravels and blossoms in a manic way. 4.48 PSYCHOSIS is her last and most vulnerable text.

Erasmus Mackenna brings this infamous classic to today's chaos, through their lens of social disruption, fear, disgust and horror. Fuelled by personal experiences, the history of genocide and apocalyptic sounds of noise and drone music, he stages a physical and musical monologue.

Première: Thu, 19 Feb 2025 20:00
Language: Dutch
Sat 21 en Thu 26 Feb English and Dutch subtitles
Please note: use of stroboscope and loud noise.
Fri. 20 feb. part of the We Are Public- programme

Part of

Frascati Producties 25/26

Credits

direction, scenography, lighting design, music and sound design Erasmus Mackenna text Sarah Kane performance Sabine van Kuipers costume design Sanne Vermij translation Han van Wieringen direction advisor Steven van Watermeulen performance advice Maria Kraakman special thanks to Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, David Greig and Espen Hjort

Previous performances in the press

Theaterkrant about Anatomy of a Suicide “Intergenerationeel trauma grijpt je bij de keel. [...] Collectief LENZ speelt het stuk voor het eerst in Nederland en de enscenering is raak gekozen.” Theaterkrant

de Volkskrant about Anatomy of a Suicide “…scherpe studie van moederschap, mentale gezondheid en suïcide.”

About Erasmus Mackenna

Erasmus Mackenna (they/she) is a director, lighting designer, scenographer and musician who graduated in Directing from Amsterdam’s Academy of Theatre and Dance in 2021. They are based in Glasgow, Scotland, and work and perform internationally. Erasmus has been affiliated to our production house since 2021. Their latest production will premiere with Frascati Producties in 2026: 4.48 PSYCHOSIS by Sarah Kane.

For Frascati Producties, Erasmus previously wrote and presented Sheath and Knife (2021) as well as LENZ (2022), and with the LENZ collective Katie Cruel (2023), Hauntology (2024) and Anatomy of a Suicide (2025).

In 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, Erasmus expands upon an oeuvre that probes the lives of outsiders – people struggling to navigate the extremes of their lives, as the threat of personal and societal collapse draws ever closer.

About Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane (1971–1999) was an influential English playwright, known for her raw, violent and poetic plays such as Blasted, Cleansed and 4.48 Psychosis, which explore themes such as love, pain, sex and death, strongly influenced by her own struggles with mental health issues, depression and her Christian upbringing.